Green-corn-husking machine



W. w. MORRA;

GREEN coax HUSKING can:

Dec. 8, 1925- 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 1 Filed Jan. 16, 1922 Mm WilliamWMormL 4 QW Patented Dec. 8, 1925.

UNITED STATES,

WILLIAM W. MORRAL, OF MORRAL, OHIO.

GREEN-QORN-HUSKING MACHINE.

Application filed January 16,1922. serial naszaesa To alt whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, TILLIAM W. MORRAL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Morral, in the county of Marion and Stateof Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Green-Gorn-Husking Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates more particularly to machines designed to butt and husk two files or rows of green corn, an example of such machine being exhibited in Letters Patent of the United States, No. 1,314,353, dated August 26, 1919.

The ob ect of the present invention is to simplify and improve the construction of such machines whereby they are compacted and better balanced in the application of power for operating them.

The invention is embodied in the example herein shown and described, the features of novelty being finally claimed.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is a view in side elevation with parts broken out and omitted.

Fig. 2 is a vertical section on the line II- II Fig. 1 looking to the left.

Fig. 3 is a detail in top plan view of the husking rolls. 7

Fig. 4 is a modification of the belt for carrylng the ears along the husking rolls.

'The present machine includes a frame having sidemembers 1 supported by legs 2. Traveling in connection with a suitable upwardly inclined bed 18 in the upper portion of the frame is an endless belt or carrier 19 traveling on sprockets 24 and'having flights 51 by means of which the ears to be husked are carried to the feeding rolls 34, gaging screws 25- and butt removers 8, one set of these rolls, screws and removers being arranged on each side of the machine with suitable means for their similar and simultaneous operation.

Journaled below the lower reach of the belt 19 and transversely of the direction of motion of the latter are two pairs of husking rolls 110, 110? and 111, 111 of usual form all geared together so that the members of each pair turn toward each other at the top to draw the husks from an ear deposited in the bite or valley'between the members of the pairs at their upper sides. One roll of each pair is slightly higher than the other to cause a rolling of the car as itis being husked, Longitudinally between the two pairs of husking rolls is secured a wall or strip 35 for the purpose of confining the cars to the rolls between which they are deposited. The two pairs of rolls are also flanked longitudinally by strips or walls. 35*" on which ride the end of the flights here-- inafter described.

, Arranged around the upper end of carrier 19 is a curved hood or guide plate 63 one side of which terminates to cause the release of the ears butted at one side of the machine onto the first pair of husking rolls 110, 110 while the-other is extended as seen at 63 (see Fig. 3) to permit the butted cars at the other side to be carried to the second 7 travel over the strip 35. The belt thus described it will be noted is arranged to travel around the lower reach of .the main feed belt 19 without interfering with the latter and the two belts can operate to perform their respective functions at the same time. Instead of using the belt with the flights 38 as shown in Fig. 1 said flights can be arranged on a chain moving in a horizontal plane as shown in Fig. 4.

The main power shaft is located. at 32,

said shaft having affixed thereto a belt pulley which is to be driven in the direction indicated by the arrow near it (see Fig. 1

From the shaft 32 power is transmitted by sprocket chain 81 to the shaft of the husking roll 110*, which being thereby rotated in the direction indicated by the arrow thereon turns all the husking rolls in the desired direction as before indicated. From a suitable sprocket wheel on the shaft of the husking roll 110 a sprocket chain 82v drives a shaft 42 for operating bevel gears 43, 43 and the sprocket chains 37 to feed the ears along'the huskingrolls. From a suitable sprocket wheel on the shaft 43 is a sprocket chain 26 that travels over a.

sprocket wheel 125 on shaft 21 and sprocket wheel 108 on shaft 106. The shaft 21 con "tain Suitable usual sprockets for driving single as on double corn husking machines The forms of theparts can be changed the carrier belt 19 while the shaft 106 drives rolls and the other file of such ears to be a belt 105 in the lower portion of the main frame for carrying away the husks drawn through the husking rolls and dropped onto said belt 105.

The feeding rolls 34, gaging rolls 25 and butt removers 8 are provided with suitable means or gearing to be driven from, the main power shaft 32 as shown or as developed in the Morral machine in the patented and practical art and needs, no detailed description herein and especiallyas such detailsdo not constitute a part of the present invention.

The operation of the present invention is briefly this: The ears of corn to behusked are placed in two fileson rows on the front, that is the right hand end of the table as shown in Fig, 1, in advance of the flights 51 and the ears areby these flights carried cross-wise of: their length to the butt removers '8, the latter cutting off the butts. Beyondthe butt removers said flights carry the ears through the guide or hood 63 to the bushing rolls one file of ears being de livered to the pair of rolls 110, 110 and theother to the pair of rolls 1'11, 111. Upon their deposition in the bushing rolls the ears are carried by the flights '38, meanwhile being deprived of their, husks, to the side, o h ma h n Wh e they ar scharged, into a suitablereceptacle to be carried away.

The drawingsshow a double husker butI claim'as my invention an improvement on without departing from the gist of the invention as claimed, For example othermeans can be employed; for causing the ears to move along, the husk ng rolls.

VVhatI cla1m,1s:

1. In a machine for husking an ear, of corn, the combination with butt removing means, and a belt for carrying the ears to be husked to andbeyond said buttremoving means, a-, pair of'huslting rolls lying transversely ofthe direction of motion, of said: belt, and in a plane intersecting the plane of the belt, and a belt provided with flights, said last named belt extending around the lower reach of the first named as o, de irelted; to, n r the ai delivered to the; other pair of said rolls, and a belt extending around a reach of the first named belt for moving the ears along said husking rolls.

3. In a machine for huskingvtwo files of cars of corn, the combination with butt removing means and a belt adapted to carry two files or rows ofcorn to be hushed to and beyond said butt removing means, two pairs of husking rolls lying transverselyv of the direction of motion of said belt and in a plane intersecting the plane of the belt, a

longitudinal wall between said pairs of huskin rolls means for causin the butted'v ears of one-file toabe delivered to one pair of the said rolls and the other file of said ears to be delivered to the other pair of said rolls, and a belt extending around a reach of the first named belt for moving the earsalong said huski'ng rolls.

4.. In a machine for husking two files of ears of corn, the combination with butt removing means, and a belt having upper and lower reaches adapted to carry two files or rows of'corn to be husked to and beyond'said butt removing means, two pairs of husking rolls and the ears of the other file to be delivered to the other pair of said rolls, and

a belt provided with. flights extending around the lower reach of said first named belt for moving the ears along said husking rolls. I

v 5. In a machine for husking two files of ears. of corn, the. combination with butt removing means and a: belt having up yer and lower reaches adaptedto carry two les or rows of corn to be hushedto and beyond said butt removing means, two pairs of husking rolls lying transversely of thevdirectionof'saidbelt and'in a planeintersectingy the plane ofithe belt, guiding meanslfor the butted ears beyond said butt removing means and means, for causing the ears of one file to be delivered to one pairof said, rolls and the ears of' the other file to be delivered toithe other pair. of said rolls, and a belt provided with flights for moving the ears along said liuskingrolls.

6. In a machine for-huskingtwo fil'esof ears of corn, the combination with buttv removing means and means for carrying the ears in; adjacent parallel files to" he hushed to and; beyondfsaid butt removing means, of'

two. pairs of husking rolls, guides for causing the. ears of; one 'file to be delivered to one pair only of said rolls and the ears of the, other file to he delivered to, the" other pair only of said rolls and"; a beltpro"- vided; with flight xt nding across: bbtii;

pairs of husking rolls for positively moving the ears along said husking rolls.

7. In a machine for husking an ear of corn, the combination with butt removing means, and a belt for carrying the ears to be husked to and beyond said butt removing means, a pair of husking rolls lying transversely of the direction of motion of said belt and in a plane intersecting the plane of the first named belt, a belt provided with flights for moving the car along said husking rolls said last named belt extending around a reach of thelast named belt and rails upon which the flights of said last named belt are supported and travel.

8. In a machine for husking ears of corn, the combination of a belt for feeding the ears crosswise of their length, a pair of husking rolls the bite of which lies transversely of the feed belt and under said belt with the plane of said bite intersecting the plane of movement of the feed belt, a belt having flights for feeding the ears in the direction of their length along said bite, and means for guiding the ears around the turn of the feeding belt to said husking rolls.

9. In a machine for husking two files of cars of corn, the combination with two butt removing devices and means located between the two butt removing devices for carrying the ears in adjacent parallel files to and beyond said butt removing devices, of two pairs of husking rolls, guides for causing the ears of one file to be delivered to one pair only of said husking rolls and the ears of the other file to be delivered to the other pair only of said husking rolls, and a belt provided with flights for positively moving the ears along said pairs of husking rolls.

10. In a machine for husking two files of ears of corn,'the combination with two butt removing devices and means located between the two butt removing devices for carrying the ears in adjacent parallel files to and beyond said butt removing devices, of two pairs of husking rolls, guides for causing the ears of one file to be delivered to one pair only of said husking rolls and the ears of the other file to be delivered to the other pair only of said husking rolls, and a belt provided with flights extending across both pairs of husking rolls for positively moving the ears along said husking rolls.

WILLIAM W. MORRAL. 

